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Shock The Monkey was released #onthisday in 1982 as the first single from Peter's fourth album, performed at Sanremo Music Festival in 1983. "Most people saw that as a sort of animal rights song, but it wasn’t actually, it was a song about jealousy." - pg

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TomNJ7 days ago

A great video went along with that song!

jim7 days ago

Right on

Teatrolan7 days ago

Che paura quella botta sulla schiena!

Easy Rider7 days ago

Where did you get the young guys pretending to be playing instruments? We missed Tony, David, Larry and Jerry.....

LF7 days ago

loved your first album and, while a kid, been your fan ever since

TheAvatarIUsedToBe7 days ago

🔥

Magnus7 days ago

One of my all time favourite songs from a great album.

Mind of Grace 🇺🇦7 days ago

Shocking or spanking, Pete?

A Cat Eating a Burger7 days ago

Masterpiece

Trevor Hitchin7 days ago

Tried reaching you dozens of times, never heard back. So it is. And yes, they absolutely fried this monkey...and the band played on.

Skeleton7 days ago

❤️

robert conley7 days ago

But yet in 1977 a minor hit became a pop culture masterpiece instrumental classic Solsbury hill !

Heinz Heizer7 days ago

"Offen, offen, offen Ja, du weißt: Das schockt den Affen Fuchs den Fuchs, deck den Dachs Herz, das Herz, keiner merkt’s Lass die Häute heute springen Schluss jetzt! Schluss! Fasse mich, fasse mich"

Tim Warwick 💙7 days ago

My favourite Peter Gabriel track.

Sebas 227 days ago

Genius ‼️ Thanks for your music and your career ..I hope yo came to Argentina again ‼️💪🏼💪🏼🇦🇷

Kirn Dhaliwal7 days ago

Great song on a great album.

Francis Hales7 days ago

I thought it was about becoming aware

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